Are you familiar with the term double-talking? Well today Joe Banner was double-taliking when he explains what the Eagles plan on doing at the quarterback position this off season.
“Here’s the reality on that, it sounds evasive, but it isn’t,” Banner said. “[After] we finished playing we all stayed here for a week and kind of finished the evaluation of the season. We all took a week off and then went to the Senior Bowl — some of us went to the Senior Bowl, some of us didn’t — and we’ve literally been back one day.
“”So we really have not had the meeting to start figuring this stuff out. Obviously we have to do that. … Obviously we have to make a decision on what we’re going to do. But at this moment I can tell you that we haven’t even laid out a plan or sat down and even exchanged our different ideas or thoughts on that.”
The Eagles front office may not have met but Andy Reid didn’t hesistate when he said that McNabb would be back and still the quarterback.
“I think Andy’s comment were unambiguous,” Banner said. “I understand that it’s still a valid … question and I don’t know if there’s anything to clarify or add to what he said. He’s the decision-maker. He’s the spokesperson. I think he was clear.”
Reid was somewhat stumped when asked about what they would do if McNabb didn’t want to play with just a year left on his contract.
“Tom Brady is doing it, Peyton Manning has done it twice,” Banner said. “Peyton Manning actually played on the last year of his contract and part of the year on a franchise tag. No, that wouldn’t be unusual”.
“We do have to make a decision on this and the decision could be anything from the status quo to some change. I think Andy’s comment speaks very clearly for where we’re at as it relates to Donovan. There’s no point in me trying to eleborate on it.”
This doesn’t make any sense because Reid said McNabb was here, now Banner tells us that there’s a chance he could be gone.
